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What to make of the 20 most-read stories among the 2,350 (or so) articles and blog posts we ran during 2009? It's hard to make head or tails of them.
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There's wide hope that world leaders can significantly advance a global commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimize changes to our climate. With such a commitment and the right technology tools, a clean and prosperous future can be well within our reach.
by Rob Bernard
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Telehouse West data center in east London will pipe waste heat to nearby homes and businesses.
by Tom Young
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AT&T has established a corporate post for a director of energy to take the reins of the firm's energy management drive -- and named its first appointee to the job.
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The technologies that made IBM's list of its top five green innovations in the past year -- and what didn't make that list -- highlight the shift that Big Blue is making toward the green.
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With the installation of a 500 kilowatt wind turbine on its manufacturing facility, Other World Computing says it is the world's first 100 percent wind-powered IT company.
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With the installation of a 500-kilowatt wind turbine on its manufacturing facility, Other World Computing says it is the world's first 100 percent wind-powered IT company.
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Wells Fargo & Company is upping the ante on its environmental commitments by targeting a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2018, based on 2008 levels.
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A combination of data center energy efficiency, renewable energy and promotion of more environmentally friendly behavior will be used to cut eBay’s greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2012.
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The Smart Grid will certainly help greeen the planet. But increasingly, IT vendors are looking to it for another kind of green --- cash. Multiple billions of dollars are at stake annually.
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Efficiency, savings -- it seems so easy: Add recycle bins, upgrade light bulbs, buy more efficient desktop monitors, replace the fleet with hybrids, add a green blurb to the homepage and voila. However, achieving meaningful change in companies goes beyond the superficial and requires a deeper dive.
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On World Environment Day this past June, Infosys announced its intention to be a carbon neutral company by 2012. It's an ambitious goal that will touch on every aspect of travel and energy use by the company's 50 facilities and 100,000-plus employees.
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Wells Fargo's newly opened Manhattan Beach branch has attained LEED-Gold status, exceeding certification expectations for the site, the financial services firm said this week.
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IT is the bridge that connects virtually all our efforts to measure, manage and reduce our environmental footprint. IT also presents significant opportunities to increase energy efficiency in operations and the environmental responsibility of products manufactured by the industry. Bonnie Nixon of HP shares her thoughts on IT as an essential element in a low-carbon economy.
by George Ahn
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Although the U.K.'s overall public-sector energy use is down from the baseline year of 1999, the increased usage of IT is driving up electricity use and associated emissions, according to a new government report.
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The U.S. Green Building Council's new headquarters in Washington, D.C., Citi's new data center in Frankfurt, Germany, and now the new data center for the education services company ACT offer striking images of what it takes to achieve the highest LEED rating for a green building.
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For the first LEED-certified data center in New England -- and just the eighth such facility in the U.S. -- the retail company embraced aesthetic design principles as well as environmental considerations.
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Manufacturing and technology company Emerson opened its new $50 million state-of-the-art global data center today -- a 35,000-square-foot facility that's expected to be 31 percent more energy efficient than a standard facility.
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Companies using outsourced data centers can save thousands of dollars per year in energy costs, as well as make significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent study.
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Fairmont Hotels & Resorts are adding eco-friendly IT strategies to the company's Green Partnership environmental program and developing power management, procurement and recycling plans for their facilities.
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Certain principles can be broadly applied across industries. Take the principle of load diversity and full capacity utilization. This principle is used to great effect in the power sector, data centers -- and in some instances, buildings.
by Rob Watson
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In this response to an earlier blog post by editor Preston Gralla, the coordinator of Greenpeace's Cool IT Challenge explains how the campaign is trying to push companies on the policy front to influence the global climate debate for the better.
by Tom Dowdall
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The Santa Clara, Calif.-based data center has become the first building in the city to earn a LEED-Gold certification.
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Symantec's first annual Worldwide Green IT Report assesses the state of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly computing around the globe and finds significant progress being made on many fronts, even in the face of worldwide recession.